Re: [R] Pass Arguments to R with an LSF submit

2010-10-02 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, I have no idea about LSF managed clusters, but on Windows at least I use (and maybe you can try it): Create a script file (.R) with: # toprint - commandArgs() length(toprint) print(toprint) # Now moving to the command prompt, either

Re: [R] problem with spline

2010-10-02 Thread Michael Bedward
I'm not overly familiar with the spilne function in R but I was under the impression that for a hermite spline fit the xs had to be strictly increasing (as in your toy example) whereas in your actual data the x values increase then decrease. Michael On 2 October 2010 11:59, Matthew Finkbeiner

Re: [R] element wise conditional assignment in r

2010-10-02 Thread yunjiangster
Phil, That's very elegant, and certainly solves my problem. But in order to assign the value to v, I would do v=ifelse(r==1,v-1,v). Is it possible to do the assignment inside the conditional? That way I can save some running time of assigning v to itself. Thanks for your solution!

Re: [R] Help its urgent

2010-10-02 Thread Josue Nuñez Rico
Hi Josh Thank you very much for your prompt response. Maybe you can advise me how to solve the problem if it causes you any inconvenience. The program I'm creating is to estimate the surface of coral, with measures taken form field which is a series of triangles scalene, which measures the

Re: [R] plotting wind rose data (Karl Ropkins)

2010-10-02 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Karl, There is an example of using Deducer's with ggplot2 to produce a rose plot (including a video of use), I thought you might find it useful: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/08/rose-plot-using-deducers-ggplot2-plot-builder/

Re: [R] maximum likelihood problem

2010-10-02 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Is equation written as a function? As in, say, eq - function(k) 1/LR - (exp(-k * T) * LM) * (1 - exp(-k)) I believe the log of the likelihood would be a simpler expression to maximize... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:39 PM, mlar...@rsmas.miami.edu wrote: I am trying to figure out how to run

Re: [R] problem with spline

2010-10-02 Thread Matthew Finkbeiner
Thank you Michael, yes, perhaps that is the problem. I've since figured out a solution using approx() that is working just fine for me. Thanks again. Matthew On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Michael Bedward michael.bedw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not overly familiar with the spilne function in

[R] Running R on Amazon EC2 : Public Snapshot for use

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear All, I ave created a public snapshot for use on Amazon EC2 using 64 bit Windows. If you want to try R on multiple cores ,remote desktop you can use this snapshot to create copies. It has R, GUIs for beginners (like RCommander , Deducer- Alas rattle failed due to RGtk+) and a lot of R

[R] Public Snapshot for using R

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear All, I ave created a public snapshot for use on Amazon EC2 using 64 bit Windows. If you want to try R on multiple cores ,remote desktop you can use this snapshot to create copies. It has R, GUIs for beginners (like RCommander , Deducer- Alas rattle failed due to RGtk+) and a lot of R

Re: [R] maximum likelihood problem

2010-10-02 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Ravi has already responded about the possibility of using nls(). He and I also have put up the optimx package which allows a control 'maximize=TRUE' because of the awkwardness of using fnscale in optim. (optimx still lets you use optim()'s tools too, but wrapped with this facility.) There are a

Re: [R] Memory allocation in 64 bit R

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 02.10.2010 03:10, Peter Langfelder wrote: Hi Mete, I think you should look at the help for memory.limit. Try to set a higher one, for example memory.limit(16000) (I think 16GB is what xenon will take). But not too funny given you have only 8Gb in your machine. So the answer probably

Re: [R] trouble with RODBC -- chopping off part of column names

2010-10-02 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Oct 1, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Mike Williamson wrote: Hello all, I have a strange / interesting problem that might be 'R' settings themselves, or it might be something with the OS. I am using the RODBC library. I have a script that goes out and, before making a query for a big data

Re: [R] trouble with RODBC -- chopping off part of column names

2010-10-02 Thread Leonardo Salas
If I make this query for the column names from my Windows laptop or from a Windows server, using odbcConnect() sqlQuery(), I get the column names properly. However, if I run this via unix, it will chop off part of the column name. (E.g., with Time Background Estimation (seconds), it becomes

Re: [R] How to apply vector value function to a multidimensional array indexed by the remaining dimensions?

2010-10-02 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
apply() is your friend. You can specify more than one dimension in argument 'MARGIN'. Example: x - array(1:100,c(3,4,5)) y - apply(x, MARGIN=c(2,3), FUN=sum) y [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,]6 42 78 114 150 [2,] 15 51 87 123 159 [3,] 24 60 96 132 168 [4,] 33

[R] maximum matrix size if it runs with 64-bit R

2010-10-02 Thread Carrie Li
Hi everyone, If I run on a 64-bit R, what is the maximum matrix size that it can handle ? Is a matrix 20,000 x 20,000 possible on 32 bit ? Thanks for answering! Carrie-- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

Re: [R] maximum matrix size if it runs with 64-bit R

2010-10-02 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Oct 2, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Carrie Li wrote: Hi everyone, If I run on a 64-bit R, what is the maximum matrix size that it can handle ? Is a matrix 20,000 x 20,000 possible on 32 bit ? Thanks for answering! A matrix is a vector with 'dim' attributes. The maximum vector length is 2^31 - 1

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.10.2010 23:58, Paul Miller wrote: Hello Everyone, Just finished reading A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by Everitt and Hothorn. I'll begin by saying that I quite liked the book. It's both little and mighty in the sense that it's very compact but contains a tremendous amount

Re: [R] [Fwd: RE: maximum likelihood problem]

2010-10-02 Thread Rubén Roa
If your problem was as you described it, you'd simply find the 1st derivative of your eq. w.r.t. k, equate to 0, and then solve for k (and check that the solution is a maximum). But I guess what you really want to do is to estimate k from data given your equation and _another model_ for the

[R] Tinn R

2010-10-02 Thread Raphael Fraser
Dear ALL, I am trying to run Tinn R for the first time with R. I have already selected the SDI option. When ever I run the code I get the following error: source(.trPaths[4]) Error in source(.trPaths[4]) : object '.trPaths' not found Can any one help? Raphael

Re: [R] Tinn R

2010-10-02 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Raphael, Why won't you try notepad++ with npptor ? It does almost everything tinnR does. I moved to it after not being happy with tinnR lack of support for R in their newer versions. Best, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Miller pjmiller...@yahoo.com wrote: Does anyone have any information about this? Looking at cran2deb [1] you can get an idea of the CRAN packages that may qualify for Debian's restrictive notion of 'free'. Regards Liviu [1]

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Spencer Graves
Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? I assumed that CRAN had a policy of not accepting anything that could not be freely distributed, but I could not find any such statement in a quick search. The code by Uwe identified 52 packages with file LICENCE or file LICENSE, plus others

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 02.10.2010 19:38, Spencer Graves wrote: Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? Oh dear, dangerous terrain Yes, there are some non-free packages on CRAN according to the terminology used by the Free Software Foundation. One example was already given in the original question:

[R] Apply function over elemetns of a list

2010-10-02 Thread PQuery
Hello, I have a list ll - see below on which I would like to apply a function accessing every pair of elements in the list. For instance, I want to apply the sum function on 6635 + 6636 and return the sum, the on 6635 + 6637, ... Any hint to do that using apply / mapply / rapply ? Thanks,

Re: [R] Apply function over elemetns of a list

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 02.10.2010 18:00, PQuery wrote: Hello, I have a list ll - see below on which I would like to apply a function accessing every pair of elements in the list. For instance, I want to apply the sum function on 6635 + 6636 and return the sum, the on 6635 + 6637, ... Any hint to do that using

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:38:22AM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote: Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? Lots. Also notice that 'free' means more than redistribution. I assumed that CRAN had a policy of not accepting anything that could not be freely That's the trouble

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks. Spencer On 10/2/2010 10:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:38:22AM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote: Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? Lots. Also notice that 'free' means more than redistribution. I assumed that CRAN had a policy of not

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On 10/02/2010 07:38 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? I assumed that CRAN had a policy of not accepting anything that could not be freely distributed, but I could not find any such statement in a quick search. The code by Uwe identified 52

[R] Possible Bug in Effects Package

2010-10-02 Thread Luciano Selzer
Dear List, I find Effects package very useful, but I believe I have found a bug in allEffects function. Please consider the following code: test - data.frame(tries= round(runif(40, 5, 300)), tra = gl(4, 10, labels = c(V, D, C, L)), prop= runif(40, 0, 1)) test$success - round(with(test,

[R] Amazon EC 2 AMI for using R

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear All A quick update. I just bundled a 30Gb EBS backed AMI for Windows 64, Revolution R and R64, Deducer,R Commander,Java SDK, Chrome, Open Office, Acrobat Reader. The AMI can be searched as a public image (search for ohR) You can mail me for the admin password if you want to explore it

[R] can't compile R on CentOS 64bit (bad interpreter: Permission denied)

2010-10-02 Thread Aleksey Noskov
Hello, I am new in R I try to build R on CentOS 64bit. *./configure --prefix=$HOME/soft *executed without any errors. But make command print that error: * DONE (codetools) begin installing recommended package foreign * installing *source* package ‘foreign’ ... sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad

[R] tyring to save plots using windoze 7 and cygwin

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Marchywka
Hi, I'd been using R in the past and recently installed it on a new windoze 7 machine. There have been many issues with compatibility and 32/64 bit apps etc and I did find on google on isolated complaint that saveplot failed in scripts a long time ago. R seems to work fine except script-based

Re: [R] tyring to save plots using windoze 7 and cygwin

2010-10-02 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Mike, I am using Windows 7 x64 with sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) x86_64-pc-mingw32 First off the Rplots.pdf is created by your call to plot(). Just like the console output is diverted when running scripts, it does not make sense to send the graphics to the usual windows

Re: [R] tyring to save plots using windoze 7 and cygwin

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On 10/03/2010 12:43 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: Hi, I'd been using R in the past and recently installed it on a new windoze 7 machine. There have been many issues with compatibility and 32/64 bit apps etc and I did find on google on isolated complaint that saveplot failed in scripts a

[R] R data opening problem

2010-10-02 Thread Alla Manukyan
Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed R for Windows. I am trying to open a stata file and I have a problem. I have used the following commands: install.packages(foreign) library(foreign) data.name - read.dta(file.choose()) # then I choose a kelleya.dta file and click on open and then

Re: [R] R data opening problem

2010-10-02 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Alla, The error message suggests that kelleya is a function. What happens when you type: str(kelleya) ? Josh On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Alla Manukyan allama...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have just installed R for Windows. I am trying to open a stata file and I have a

Re: [R] R data opening problem

2010-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Spies
If I understand your problem correctly, I think you need to be doing: summary(data.name) The functions read.dta and read.spss both return things (data frames, if you use the to.data.frame=T argument with read.spss). So whatever variable you set is what you should be doing a summary on. In this

Re: [R] Output Graphics GIF

2010-10-02 Thread Nilza BARROS
Dear R users, Thanks!. After reading the suggestions I have decided to choose png format Bye and Best Regards, Nilza On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Nilza BARROS nilzabar...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R

[R] Read file

2010-10-02 Thread Nilza BARROS
Dear R-users, I would like to know how could I read a file with different lines lengths. I need read this file and create an output to feed my database. So after reading I'll need create an output like this INSERT INTO TEMP (DATA,STATION,VAR1,VAR2) VALUES (20100910,837460, 39,390) I mean, each

Re: [R] Read file

2010-10-02 Thread Michael Bedward
Hello Nilza, If your file is small you can read it into a character vector like this: indata - readLines(foo.dat) If your file is very big you can read it in batches like this... MAXRECS - 1000 # for example fcon - file(foo.dat, open=r) indata - readLines(fcon, n=MAXRECS) The number of lines